Today a grand jury has indicted
Republican Texas Governor
Rick Perry
on charges of abuse
of official capacity
which is a first-degree felony
carrying a punishment
of five to ninety-nine
years in prison
and coercion
of a public servant
which is a third-degree felony
with a punishment
of two to ten years.
Rick Perry knows
that a real Texas cowboy
does not run away
from the law
but rather
publicly threatens to defund
his state's public integrity unit
of $7.5 million
over the course
of two years
if its head
the Democrat
Travis County District Attorney
Rosemary Lehmberg
(who really yes
should not have been
endangering public safety
by drunk driving)
does not resign.
Rick Perry has approved
the execution
of 234 prisoners
more than any other governor
in US history
but really
they all completely deserved it
and such actions
should never leave one
with a lingering doubt
of one's own ethics
or even the sense
that what goes around
may in fact come around
to bite one
on the cojones someday.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
